The Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles (FNSEA;) is a French umbrella organisation charged with the national representation of 20,000 local syndicat agricoles(agricultural unions)) and 22 regional federations.[1]
The Vichy regime's Peasant Corporation was dissolved after the Liberation of France in September 1944, but the unity of agricultural organisations that it had established persisted.
The new Socialist Minister of Agriculture, François Tanguy-Prigent, replaced it with a national union of working farmers rather than landowners, the Confédération générale de l'agriculture (GCA).
In March 1946, the Fédération nationale des syndicats d'exploitants agricoles was created as a CGA branch, but it soon dominated the confederation. Many of the former Peasant Corporation leaders became leaders of the FNSEA.
